Unknown Plant - Heart-shaped leaves

**vicky** · 04-05-2009, 09:03 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sseliana01.jpg

Looks like it could be Phlomis russeliana
or maybe some type of deadnettle?

**Sweepster** · 04-05-2009, 09:08 AM

Foxglove....?

**Flummery** · 04-05-2009, 11:07 AM

Look up Woundwort in Google Images.
It's a stachys and looks rather like that. It could also be a foxglove. I find it very hard to tell from even a good photo!

**Meschuee** · 04-05-2009, 02:59 PM

Hello and thank you, everyone. I'm going to look up the plants you suggest.

I'll come back to you when it flowers - which will probably help more than a photo of the leaves.

Penny

**Polly Fouracre** · 04-05-2009, 03:56 PM

I thought foxglove or maybe borage?

**Flummery** · 04-05-2009, 05:11 PM

My borage has rounded leaves though.

**zazen999** · 04-05-2009, 05:41 PM

We were out today and there was lots of foxglove-y stuff that looked just like this....I'd not go for borage as the leaves are long ovals with a point; not heart shaped.

**Polly Fouracre** · 04-05-2009, 06:24 PM

What about comfrey?

**Apple Betty** · 04-05-2009, 07:27 PM

Looks a lot like my honesty - my foxgloves are much narrower, more oval shape.

**Glutton4...** · 04-05-2009, 09:08 PM

I was thinking Honesty (Lunaria) too.

**Meschuee** · 05-05-2009, 06:59 AM

Thanks, everyone. I have had honesty in the garden in the past, so can't wait to see what the flowers are like. Going out now to see if they've progressed.

Penny

**Meschuee** · 05-05-2009, 07:46 AM

Here is a close-up of the whorls on the flower spike.

I found this site while searching for images - it might interest you.

http://botany.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxlam.htm

Penny

**Meschuee** · 06-05-2009, 05:49 PM

Here's the latest photos of the "mystery" plant. I'm beginning to think it might be a Stachys of some sort, possibly a Betony.

Penny

**Flummery** · 06-05-2009, 06:41 PM

Betony has a different leaf. We have it in our little 'meadow'. Stachys looks about right though. Still looks like woundwort to me.

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